A suggestion to Anthropic, just start charging the real price for your software. Of course you have to dumb it down, when the $200 tier in reality produces 5-10 thousand dollars in monthly costs when used by people who know how to max it out.
So then you come up with creative nonsense like "adaptive thinking" when your tool is sometimes working and sometimes outright not - the irony of "intelligent tools" not "thinking" aside. Of course this would kind of ruin your current value proposition as charging the actual price would make your core idea of making large swaths of skilled population un-employed, unfeasible but I am sure if you feed it into the Claude, it will find some points for and against, just like how Karpathy uses his LLM of choice to excrement his blog posts.
> when the $200 tier in reality produces 5-10 thousand dollars in monthly costs
are you asserting that the actual dollar cost to anthropic for a heavy user was 5-10k? or are you basing this on the (fabricated) value of those tokens, ie potentially lost revenue from a pay-per-token user.
I am basing it on self-reports of advanced users on popular platforms such as reddit, reporting of Ed Zitron AND the official affidavit of the Anthropic CFO in relation to their court-filed complaint against DoD (for being excluded), stating that the total revenue of Anthropic since its founding and TO DATE had been at meager 5 Billion dollars. So wasting hundreds of billions of dollars per year to make a cumulative revenue of 5B to date does not quite sound like a financially sound business to me.
